All right, we'll call our meeting to order. Do roll call, please. >> Here, Davidson, >> here. here. >> Green Street >> here. >> These microphones, we're still getting used to them.
>> All right, we'll stand for the pledge of allegiance and moment of silence. Aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. This time I'll look for a motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> So move. >> Second. >> Queen. >> I.
>> Davidson. >> I. >> Yoganess. >> I. >> Gordon. >> I >> approved. Great. Um so tonight we're starting off our meeting um with something new which I'm pretty excited about. Um it's our community spotlight
um and our our newly created award called On Wings of Evil. So I'll give it over to Rob to kind of let everyone know what this is all about. >> Yeah, thank you Stephen. If you could pull off the slides. It's a privilege to introduce uh a
community recognition program that we as the board have called on wings of eagles. And if you can imagine, next slide please. It's a a recognition program that identifies or recognizes community members or organizations who rise above
and beyond to inspire and uplift our students in their pursuit of academic excellence, personal responsibility, and civic duty. We want to look for folks in our community that are doing this with our students. Next slide, please.
So, how do you become one of these? First of all, you need a group of students in a way to pursue what we just mentioned. But there is a nomination form if you see somebody that's leading a group of students on our Woodland Park
School District website on the board of education website and anybody can be nominated. The criteria we're looking for the nominee inspires and uplifts our students in their pursuit of academic excellence. personal responsibility and
duties their duties. But we're looking for somebody who's leading our students across the district, not just one school. We're looking for a combination of students from Summit, Coline, Merit Academy, Woodland
Park Junior High, and High School. A combination of those students that a an individual or organization is taking all of those students together and inspiring them. Nominees can be submitted at any time. Anytime you want to go into that
website, fill out that form, hit submit, and it gets sent to the board, and we look at it, and we hopefully select that individual. Now, what if they're missing one of those criteria? We're not going to just call and say, "Nope." We'd like to work with that team and say, "Hey, if
they just did this a little bit, think then recognize that person." So, we're looking for the positives. Wonderful. Good stories here. Next slide, please. So, we're going to recognize the nominees at our board meetings and
other forums within the community. We picked a pretty cool gift to give to that nominee. It's an eagle. It's an infant on eagle's wings which embodies courage and vision and strength and the
ability of great to soar above great heights and really representing insight clarity wisdom leadership and renewal. Thank you. >> Where's Gail?
>> I didn't do it. And our first recipient for the on wings of eagles award is next slide please found and president Barkley if you can come up
to the audience and President Barkley will present you with the certificate. You want to be the first? Yeah. The Woodland Park School District R2 board of education presents the on Wings of Eagles award to
Kimberly F. BS. Miss Kimberly F. pounds rose above and beyond to perform distinguished service as director of the House of David Music Center from April 1st, 2023 to January 10th, 2026.
Mrs. Bounds and her team trained 47 students from Summit, Coline, and Youth Pass elementaryaries, the Colorado Springs Christian School in Woodland Park, and Merit Academy. Students were trained to play
instruments that included the ukulele, guitar harp drums violin piano and garage band. The students performed a showcase fundraiser fundraiser music recital on
January 10th for the five elementary schools and presented $100 checks to each school's music program. Energized by the showcase, the students are preparing to perform an afternoon
tea fundraiser where all proceeds will support the scholarship program for 61 future House of David students. Mrs. founds outstanding devotion to inspire and uplift students in their
pursuit of academic excellence, personal responsibility, and civic duty. Reflect the highest credit upon herself and the House of David Music Center. Signed this date, April 8th, 2026 by President Keen R.
Barkley, Woodland Park School District 22 Board of Education. We get a picture. Do you have any words you would like to say? >> Maybe the mic. We can use it. >> You might. Um, I just like to say that
that we're all in this together. And when we take a part, um, the kids really get inspired. So when they when they know they can do great things by playing a little piano piece and we had one student um I don't know I should say his
name but um Nick Jackson Warner he's the only one from um New from um Coline and he was solely responsible for the $100 that went to his school and like when I told him that he couldn't believe it because he really didn't want to
perform. So, um, we have another event coming up on Saturday, May 30th, the Pass Culture Center, and all the students are going to be performing because they all were inspired by the last time, and they're just like, I can do something big just with a little a
little thing. So, anyway, thank you so much for seeing us. >> We see you. We definitely see you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, more spotlights. That brings us to our volunteer spotlight. Um, so we've got parents and uh, community
connections or our pack to you, Laura, to introduce all this. So, I'm especially excited to introduce this group because I they're my people. Um, but PAC stands for parent and
community connection. And we just want to be um open to having community members grandparents all the people to participate in what we're passionate about, which is our students and our staff. Um, this group
will do anything to show up for our students and our staff and make them feel appreciated. And they have so much passion. They have so much uh so many good ideas. And I'm just especially
excited to introduce my good friend Dana Kramer who will talk more about the details of what pack is doing. UM, we have some really amazing, lovely parents, grandparents, and community members that are a part of the pack. And
as Laura said, it's parent and community connection. We really wanted to hold a space that invited the community into our schools as well because we had a lot of people asking, "How can we help? I'm not a parent. What can I do to help?"
So, it's just been uh it's been really lovely to see the community come around our schools. Um so, I just want to recognize those who are here and then a couple who aren't. Um so, we got Kim, you want to you can stand up if you want.
one of our fearless leaders contact and Michelle Eastman has also been a great resource over the um the last few years. Um, other people, um, I'm just gonna say first names, Crystal, Jeremiah, Erin, Lisa. Um, and sorry if I
forgot anybody else, but, um, we, our mission, our purpose is to unite families, educators, and the community in fostering a supportive and vibrant environment where students thrive, teachers feel valued, and enriching opportunities strengthen the theater
spirit. In the past, we've hosted things like the color run fundraiser and assisted with events throughout the school year, including middle school dances, uh staff appreciation efforts. Um we work to raise funds to support field trips, classroom grants, and other
student enga engagement initiatives, uh with the merger of the junior and senior high, and the creation of an incredible 7 through 12 schoolwide student council and student leadership class. um they've taken on a lot of the student engagement
efforts. So, our role has naturally evolved. Um the booster club has also played an important role uh in the past years and as that chapter has closed, it's created a space for pack to step in and carry that Panther spirit forward in
new and evolving ways. We've embraced this as an opportunity to reimagine how we can best serve our school community today. This year has been a time for us to listen, learn, and better understand the needs of our students, families, and staff so we can build something meaningful and lasting moving forward.
We see a real need for both fundraisers and fundraisers that will not only support our school financially, but also bring our community together. The first event that we're working on is our inaugural Panther Pickle Ball Tournament, and we um we have some other
big plans that will be kicking off this fall. As we move forward, we'll need the support of our entire community, parents staff students coaches and the school board and the district. And you'll begin to see more details and opportunities to get involved um and
connect as we roll these plans um out. Uh we see Panther Pack as a partner in strengthening the school community and we're excited to align our effort efforts with the broader goals of the Woodland Park Junior Senior High and to
build a more connected inclusive approach to parent and community engagement. So thank you guys. It's an honor to be a part of a group that serves our students with these amazing miracle makers. Um they're awesome. Just
a really cool team of people to work with. So um anyone interested um we have a team reach and we meet once a month. But it's just it's a really cool honor to be a part in this way with our
schools and students. So thank you. I just want to say how excited I am that PAC is doing the pickle ball tournament as part of the broader October Fest um celebration that we'll have here this September, not only as a school board member, but as a member of the planning
committee for the October Fest. I'm really pumped about that. Um you know, it's all about the kids and that's what the whole event is. So, I'm so excited you guys are joining us for that and all the other things you do. But >> yeah, good. Um, all right. Excellent.
That brings us to our administrative reports then. Um, so first up is board of education reports. Does anybody have things they'd like to share? Okay. Um, yeah, I just want to talk about uh Boseies for just a minute and
Laura feel free to jump in and add anything. Laura and I are Woodland Park School District's representatives to our our Boseies organization. Boseies, for those that are unaware, is a board of cooperative educational services. And we
have a um new Pasposis is a combination of Creek and Woodland Park School District um with their purpose being to um uh work together to provide um the services needed for our um um
exceptional student groups. Uh and we had a meeting last night. We had kind of a not quite year-end report about the numbers of students served. Um, and Katie Uber is the director of Boseies. She's doing a a really great
job. Like everybody it feels like in this whole community, it's her first year. Um, and it's this the superintendent at Creek's first year. Um, and this is the first year of
the um, you pass Boseies just being Creek and Woodland Park. It was manitu as well. It's the first year that the finances are underneath Woodland Park School District. So, the learning curve is huge and I feel like they're
working really hard to get a handle on everything. Um, there have been no state complaints, which, you know, that seems like that should be a given, but apparently that's kind of a a fairly common occurrence. And so, it's been
it's been a good first year. um our Boseis organization when you look at the the specialed students in our Boseis organization 15% of them are at Creek and 85% of them are within
Woodland Park School District and that's used to kind of divide up some of the monies and some of the costs of things within Woodland Park School District 35 students are at Merit Academy and 99 of
them are in the district. One thing I learned about Boseies as well is that while we have October count to determine funding for all of the students, there is a December one count that determines
the number of sped students and where that that funding goes. Brand new to me. Um and so I'm not sure I didn't ask Katie if that count is a December one count or what it is. Um the state and
federal funding that we get as a district covers about 30% of the cost of educating um this group of children. announcement as well. So, um I know I had mentioned in in a prior meeting that
I had the honor to act as the grand marshall in the St. Patrick's Day parade here in town. Um and uh thanks to all the wonderful sponsors for that event. Um I, you know, between the um breed and and my main part of that, we were able
to um have a donation of over $800 to our athletic program here at the district. Um so I just want to give a shout out to everyone who helped participate in the St. Patrick's Day parade to make those funds available. Um and let you know that they will be put
to good use. I'm I know Cat was uh excited to get that and I'm sure we uh will will be using those quickly because while $800 over $800 is nothing to sneeze at, of course it's a drop in the bucket compared to actual costs per
student uh coaching and athletics, but want to keep that going. So, just want to make that announcement and say thank you to everyone who participated. >> I have one other really quick thing, actually. Um, I think this is the first regular meeting we've had since we um talked through our board communication
plan and shared a community letter um out to the out to the community. Um, but uh we have discussed ways in which we can improve our outreach to the community and just keep them informed about the work that we're doing. And um that letter was published on our website. It was sent out to staff uh or
to well to families and staff. Uh it was published as a as a guest column in the courier. So, we're really working hard to try to keep people informed about the work that we've done so far this quarter and um that will be a an ongoing effort. I think hopefully having some kind of a um a community letter that demonstrates
the work that we're doing. >> And Lindsay, I'm going to put you on the spot for a second. Uh, on that note, were we able to get a sign up um list going on the website for any community members who maybe don't have kids in the
district and so wouldn't automatically be added to those outreach yet. So on the homepage under the news section, there's an article there that um says district communication, right? They can subscribe to district communications
through that Google form. >> Excellent. >> All right. And so for anyone listening online who could not hear Lindsay, there is a link on the district website on the homepage where you can sign up if you're interested in hearing more about what we're doing here at the district. We
invite you to sign up so we can send you emails and keep you updated of all the fun things happening here at school. One other thing Carol just reminded me of uh Rob Carol and I attended and the case still okay
in >> okay sorry still her and mayor Kelly um shared and just I really appreciated her heart for our community and all the hard work they've been doing for our city. Um it was a great breakfast, a great event.
All right. Good. >> Thanks. So, good. >> And that brings us to superintendent report. All right. Well, I'm going to begin with Coline Elementary School. Students and staff are working hard on their final preparations for the Maker
Fair on April 22nd from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. The theme this year is colorful Colorado in celebration of Colorado's 125th anniversary of statehood. Every student will have an art uh artwork on
display for the maker fair and we will also have Colorado themed snacks and musical performances and apparently a Sasquatch. So, sounds like a fun night. Um, Summit Elementary is just wrapping
up their readathon and they have an overall uh students reading overall 120,000 minutes collectively. And then every family received a copy of The Prince and the Popper by Mark Twain. And the top readers will be switching
places with uh Katie Rexford, Principal Rexford for the day. and they uh will hopefully have a grand old time that day. Um and also um Summit's Destination Imagination
teams are gearing up for the state competition this weekend at the School of Minds. So good luck. That's very exciting. And then the junior senior high school students. Um the the high school musical Greece is being performed
this week. Thursday, Friday, Sat and Saturday at 700 p.m. and Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Track, baseball, and women's soccer are in full swing. And then the junior high school 7th and eighth grade destination team is also going to state
at the School of Minds along with their elementary friends. So, it'll be a good time this weekend for that those teams. And then also very excited that Mark Mesner um was awarded the National Merit Merit Scholarship and so I think he'll be joining us next month. Is that
correct? >> So, very exciting stuff happening at our schools and then more exciting things. Um I'm Katie, can you stand up for one moment? I'm sorry I'm putting her on the spot.
He's sitting in the audience tonight. So, okay. Thank you. So, I am very excited that I received an email from CDE. I believe it was at the end of last week. I called Katie late at night, so she wasn't asleep just yet. Um, but Summit Elementary School is being
recognized by the state once again for receiving the Governor's Distinguished Improvement Award, which is given to schools that show exceptional student growth. So, congratulations to If you remember the night that we talked about the blue ribbon award, um I know
that it got cancelled by the federal government, but we she is also being honored and Summit Elementary is being honored because she um was a nominee for that. So, I'm very excited um to go with Katie on April 28th to Denver to honor
Summit Elementary and Katie Um, in case you don't know, April is the month of testing. And so, CAMASS testing is happening at all three of our buildings or all of the buildings. Third through eighth grade students take English language arts and which is
reading and also math. Coline's fourth grade is also taking an additional social studies test this year. And then fifth grade, eighth grade, and 11th grade also take CAMath science. And then PSAT and SAT exams will happen at the
junior senior high um in April as well. Some other information of things that are happening at the district level. Um, Lindsay is working right now on creating a Woodland Park School District charter school partnership web page in order to
help us be transparent with our community with relevant information regarding our daily operations with Merit Academy as well as other important information um, such as the charter agreement, the CAL CA sorry slideshow
and any other um, information that we feel is relevant to just make sure that we're being very transparent. And um other things that are happening right now, Karen and I are planning to move forward with some professional
development focused um on high reliability schools by Marzano. This programming um was deeply embedded in our district a few years ago and we're planning to revitalize it because it encompasses best practices for students and
teachers. We w we just talked last night with our um climate and culture team because we wanted to kind of get some feelers out there. Had some great dialogue with them um because we will be starting with level one which is safe, supportive and collaborative culture.
So, it works perfectly with that group. And um we're thinking about writing that training into title two next year because a lot of um the best practices in there are things that we've heard across the board um for strategic planning and so excited that we have a
plan moving forward. I also attended a Pikes Peak superintendent meeting last Friday and um superintendent across the region and also across the state um shared uh what they are doing right now because of the
state's financial forecast. And so districts all across the area are relying on natural attrition and increasing efficiency by reassigning existing staff to fill vacancies rather than hiring new personnel. Uh Woodland
Park is being strategic about that as well. We are following similar practices um implementing some minor strategic staff reductions and um we also communicated with staff this week that we are working really hard to get our
contracts out to staff as soon as possible. Um, that's something that we just want to make sure that when we get them out to staff, they're done correctly. And so, it's taking a little bit longer, but I I think that we sent a communication out yesterday just trying to be really transparent with our staff
as well as we move forward. And, uh, one final update, sorry. Um, I followed up with McKenzie from CASKA after our board work session last week, I think that was. and um we are meeting
with her this Friday morning to learn about um different services they offer including um charter school leaison. So I'm very excited to keep working with them. >> On a side note, April is also um national stress awareness month. I don't
know if that has anything to do with testing, but something else to keep in mind. All right. Thank you, Jinger. Yes. All right. That brings us to the facilities report. Jason, I think I saw you sneak in.
>> You did. >> Oh, >> where do you feel comfortable? We moved it over there earlier. >> You see specific purpose? >> You see that? Would be standing here. >> Yeah.
I can see slide back slightly. There you go. That's good. >> That's perfect. >> Can you hear me out there? >> All right. So, last time that we met, I think it was at the work session, we
talked about an idea to get the community involved in some facility needs. And so, I've got kind of a rough draft of what I think that could look like. and then I need your feedback at the end of it. So, we kind of broke it
down into um three parts and one of the parts was one big community survey and obviously the the reason why we need the community's help is that we do have somewhat of a budget crisis with the
loss of the sales tax. Uh we taking some pretty deep cuts. My budget in my department took a million dollar cut. So, that's a lot of money to not have. So, um, and we want to maintain buildings that are safe and functional, and we don't want kids distracted
because their heater doesn't come on or because it won't turn off or because we got a leak in the roof. You want them to be able to focus on learning. So, uh, the plan would be to engage the community. I've had a lot of positive
feedback from the community even since this has kind of just been discussed. So I think that the community is going to come together. So the three uh spokes of this wheel would be one big community serve day which I'll talk in depth about
also a fundraiser dinner possibly led by the DAC or the sack or both or another committee at the school to help pay for the bathroom dividers at Coline Elementary School. That's about a
$30,000 ticket and uh I'll talk more about some things with that. And then we do have some things that would require skilled labor. And so, uh, I talked with Carol's husband at the breakfast the other morning. He knows some several
roofing contractors who have discussed coming together and all working together to help us put a roof on a building. So, um, we have some other needs. We'll get there. So, first I want to talk about dates. Um,
>> I would love to do this before school is out because once we get into summer, I feel like people have plans and they're busy and giving up a Saturday in the summer can be difficult. Um, of course, the city does their big citywide cleanup, I believe, in the summer. And I
don't think they're doing that this year, so they might be able to take advantage of that, but >> Oh, that's in June. Yep. June. >> I think they're not doing that. Oh, they're not not during the year. I don't >> I don't know that for a fact. >> I'll have to check with the committee.
>> So, I proposed two dates. Obviously, these are just that like the soonest I think we could do it would be May 16th. That's the Saturday before uh Memorial Weekend. Kind of the problem with that is I like
for events like this, I really feel like nine weeks to promote it would be beneficial. because most people need, you know, five to eight touches, you know, five to eight communications before they sign up. And if we go and
even June 6 is kind of pushing it, but um a lot of these things we need done before July. So, we would like if you guys feel like we can pull it off, we'll just push for whatever date you like. Um I would like to only keep people for
half a day. It's going to take more people, but my proposed schedule would be um people will come and check in at the campus they signed up for at 7:30, get breakfast, like a breakfast burrito or something. We would try to work with
the community to get that donated from a restaurant or we could have volunteers sign up to bring food like they did when we came back from when did we do that? When we came back from Christmas. Yeah. >> Yeah. And then we would work from 8 to 11 at
your assigned campus. And then everybody would come back to the junior senior high campus for lunch that we get donated. Say thank you. Um everybody could, you know, give back to their Saturday. So if you'll uh look there at the bottom
of this slide, um I put a volunteer range, kind of the minimum number of volunteers that we would need to execute. And it'll make more sense when I show you the task, but you know, I would like to have a minimum of 155 volunteers. I could
theoretically place almost 300 in a position doing something affected. So across all four campuses. So um here's a list of the items that we talked about. Um the first one is
uh pretty much prepping the grounds around the campus for summer mowing and also doing some fire mitigation. We have a couple of pretty severe fire mitigation needs. One at Coline, the five acres behind the on the uh south
side of the campus that we own. And there's a like a triangle section, a few acres up here on the east side of the junior senior high that hasn't been mitigated in a long time. Um, I did get the opportunity to talk with Donald
Moore from No Flowco and they're willing to help us with that. He doesn't know much about this uh survey, but I thought we might be able to coordinate those efforts. If not, if that fire mitigation was separate, we'd need to have another
uh kind of volunteer push to help with that. Um, but I think we can do it all together. And so, you can see how I broke it down. You know, 5 to 10 at Coline, um, 10 to 20 at Summit. And actually, I
think I got those numbers switched. Merit Academy, 15 to 30 just because of the size. And then junior senior highly 25 to 50. Um we do have quite a few um I don't call them flower beds because we
can't really grow any flowers to deal with the mulch beds. They the kids do they go and they kick the mulch around. It gets blown around. Um weeds do come up in there. A lot of the weed barriers deteriorated. Um so I like to put some new mulch weed
those like so I've got that on here. Um, playgrounds require a different standard for mulch. They require playground certified mulch. We do have a couple playgrounds that are due for some um, new mulch and so that would be a
separate crew doing those. That way we keep all that mulch separate. Um, we have a lot of exterior windows on every building which is awesome. Like classrooms are bright. You can see outside there's a lot of cleaning on
those. And so we have the equipment to do those from the ground like the upper level windows. So nobody would have to be up on a ladder or anything, but um we cleaning and detailing our white fleet. This is a big one especially for me cuz
if I don't get any volunteers then I get to do it. And we've got about 15 vehicles that are used all throughout the school year transporting students and staff to various events and they get used very
frequently. Very rarely do I have a chance to clean one in the middle of the year unless there's an accident or somebody got sick or whatever. So, um, those things could use a thorough I know some of y'all are thinking they need some paint is what they need. But we do have some that need paint, but we're not
going to do that this time. But if we could have a team to help detail those because I have to clean them before they go to CD. I can they can fail inspection if they're just trashed. So, I try to get them in good enough shape to pass
our CD inspection. And those actually start uh first week of May through July. So some of them I'll probably start cleaning. But we could set up in the north parking lot out here, have a power washer, have all this stuff where a team of people, like two or three people take
each vehicle, and I think in three hours they could knock it out. Um a real big one is parking lot striping. I wish um I could accommodate more volunteers in this slot. I don't have the equipment
to do it. And so um we could talk about that later if we could get some equipment donated. Um it's like anybody can do it. Like if especially the little spray can operated painters, they've got a little arrow. You just point the arrow
down. Unless there's no line, then it can get kind of crazy. If you can trace a line, you can you can strike parking lot. So, you know, part of it is blowing off like you can't paint over dirt and expect it to the paint to stay. So, there's a little bit
of cleaning, but you can do it with a leaf blower. We have all the equipment to do that. Um, and then pothole repair. We have a lot of potholes in the district. These are not difficult to repair with cold patch and um we show everybody we have all the equipment to
do that. And then we have a lot of tree trimming that needs to be done. Um, starting to get where we can't mow around a lot of trees because they hit you in the face. It'd be nice to kind of clean some of that up around and it looks nice, too.
Um, that one we would want to have at least somebody leading that team that had some experience. You've never operated chainsaw. It's probably not the one. Some of them you can do with just walkers.
So if you look at the totals for each campus, you know, Coline like I and I said I think I had those number. We're probably looking more like, you know, 30 to 50 at Coline, you know, 27 to 50 at Summit, you know, 39 to 75 at Merit and
then 67 to 130. Kind of the range I need at the junior senior high for a total of 155 to 290 almost 300 volunteers. I don't Does anybody know what number people normally sign up for the cities? >> About 100.
>> About 100. Okay. So, we'd be trying to triple that. >> We can do this. >> So, a huge aspect of something like this with this many people is a volunteer coordinator. So, I'm just being honest
with you. I do not think in my current role I have the capacity to coordinate all those volunteers. You know, I could help a volunteer coordinator stay on track with the game plan. So, we would need I have an idea of a couple people,
but I haven't told them to do it yet. So, um if you guys have any one of y'all want to do it, I think, uh like managing the sign up platform, you know, helping coordinate the food deliveries and the
PPE, which we'll talk about, and then um and finding a site coordinator. I think on the day of it's going to be pretty chaotic in a fun way, but I don't think one volunteer coordinator on the day of is enough. Like I think every campus
needs to have a site coordinator that knows what's going on in my campus. You know, they have a list of who's signed up and you know they can coordinate. they can call back to the main coordinator or myself or whoever if they
need help >> with um do we have enough people on your team to help like maybe there's a volunteer coordinator but as far as like what the tasks are and and maybe someone who can help explain that to the volunteers would someone on your team be able to help with that? Yeah, I think
what I like to do like the site coordinators like at each campus, we would do some training with them beforehand. >> So if somebody was like having trouble, you know, with the cold patch or with this or that, like they would be able to help on the day of. But yeah, I'll have,
you know, I'll be there. So I haven't talked to my maintenance crew about that. I'm sure that they don't have something. They'd love to be there. >> I think that would be helpful. And probably help you get site volunteers if they know that there's somebody who has
experience like >> Yeah. We're not us on our own with >> Right. Yeah. >> Yeah. No training. Yeah. It's nothing worse than >> Jason, really quick on that. Um I have because I've had experience in organizing the citywide cleanup for like 5 years. I'd be willing to help with your volunteer coordinator and just
trying to Okay. >> Trying to coordinate those efforts. Um I don't know that I would be able to take that on full-time, but I would be more than happy to support that. Okay. >> Person of that group. Yeah. >> Awesome. >> And we can probably Lindsay, I'm calling you out again. Um have a sign up sheet on the website. Um maybe one of those
banners that pops up so we make it really easy so people can sign up. >> So I would like to do when people sign up, they can sign up for the task they want would like to participate in. signing the liability waiver, which we
need to have in there, and and get like a some followup communications like all built in. And so, we have a sign up genius account, but I think we just have the free one. Isn't that right? We may
have to pay. There's another one called Volunteer Local. Um, it's a little bit more powerful, but I don't know that it's more powerful than the paid version. We're probably going to have to invest a little money in the platform to make sure like everything's in one spot.
You know, Lindsay can put the sign up genius link where it's like click here >> and it'll populate all that info to the volunteer coordinator. We can track they can send reminders. So, it's all like I need a reminder
when I sign up for something. So, we have some options. We could if we need to do it free, we can do the free version of Signup Genius and maybe um do the liability waiver another way or we could try building a Google form. Um I
think the only thing I'm concerned about with Google forms is uh the legal aspect of the liability waiver and how we how people are able to sign it. It's kind of like I think on Google forms it's a checkbox and so I don't I think we'd need to get some counsel on that before
we pull the trigger if we wanted to use that. >> It may it may be seamlessly like old school. Uh but just having forms day of >> Well, we definitely will need to have forms day of >> just to sign. >> Yeah, because we'll have people that Oh, I forgot to sign the form or I forgot to
sign up. So, we'll definitely need forms day and we can always do it that way. might be more steps than some people. >> Yeah. >> So, we can those are things that we can work along the way, but rather soon. So,
um I do feel like obviously it's just my opinion, but I feel like we probably need to provide some PPE, >> like personal protective equipment. And so, I have like probably 50 pairs of gloves at my shop
right now that were in some emergency kits that we used to keep in the schools. We have to buy more. You know, I don't know if we've got safety vests around or if maybe the city would have some we could borrow. I think we could come up with some of that stuff. Like I don't know. I know we probably should
provide water. Um we'll need to have first aid kits in case somebody decide to play with chainsaws that's never played. >> Oh gosh. >> So get one of those thought bleeding kids.
>> Keep your fingers. >> Maybe sunscreen. I don't know. So that would be somebody else that's maybe Cassie. I don't remember what this I've done it. I've been with the city. It seems like they gave us water and little trash picker uppers and vests.
>> Mhm. >> Yeah. All that equipment is stored in the shed behind the city offices and so we could go through it. Um we just replenished a bunch of that stuff last year too after the last clean up. So um if they'd be willing to let us use it, I think that'd be great. Yeah. >> Yeah, I think that would help. Then we
would just need to make sure on the sign up like obviously we wouldn't want people wearing flip flops and swimsuit or like most of this is going to require some some kind of protective clothing. So
that's all about the community one big serve day. the other two pieces of this uh puzzle, the fundraiser dinner. Um like I said, that the goal would be to raise the money for the dividers in the combine bathroom. So, there's four
bathrooms. There's two upstairs, two downstairs. Like I said, I we need to raise about $30,000 uh to pull that off. Um, when I talked with Landis about it, she said that might be possible that she could provide
some matching funds from walk-athon money, which is designated for campus improvements. So, I don't know exactly on the amount, but I think that would be a great benefit to whoever's running that fundraiser.
So, and I think you could do that sometime in the summer. And I would let whoever whatever you know committee decided they wanted to tackle that pick their dates and and uh you know I know we've got the
top new Taba house is opening up like in a month I think there's already some fundraisers scheduled there and then the skilled volunteer efforts um two big ones and I didn't have the uh roofing projects on here but I did talk
with Kirk about that so I'm I'm going to be reaching out to him to see if we can sit down, have coffee with these roofers and see like what how serious are the problems here. >> We did apply for a best grant. We'll know May that'll be the end of May. I think we'll
know for sure. So, if we receive it, we'll receive around $640,000, which is half of the cost for the Summit Elementary route. Um but we have um really we have six modulars in the
district. We have one that the tech department operates out of. We have three at Summit and then we have two at Coline. And we actually have another one at my shop, but I don't I'm not included in this, but all the ones we use regularly
are in need of some pretty serious repairs. Um, and we need to access We've got We've had trouble keeping uh barnaments out from underneath these and they don't have any act like you have to literally take the siding off to get underneath them and they just need
access doors. They they just need some basic stuff. Um, some of them need staining or painting, but all those kind of things are a little bit of skilled labor. Like anybody that had any experience remodeling would be awesome for those. and we could schedule those
throughout the summer. So that would be like something we would, you know, reach out to the community and say, "Hey, if you have these sets of skills, um, if you'll contact, you know, me or whoever it is that's coordinating that, let's
set up a team to go out, maybe you can adopt modular one at some adopt modular 2. It's all in mind." And like they got all summer they could, you know, we could just have a goal like this is what we need to do. you know, we provide all the materials
that we could. Now, it's time for your feedback. So, I guess some of the things I'd like to know how you guys feel is like on the two proposed dates, do you think there'd be a better day? Do you think there's enough time to even So, what I don't
want to do is like try to push this and we didn't have enough time to really do it well and then it like it kind of leaves a bad taste in people's mouth and you can't pull it off. I don't want to do that.
Also, if you have any ideas about a volunteer coordinator that could help with this, um, if you have any experience with any of those volunteer signup platforms, and then
if you think that I don't know if anybody is a liazison to the DACK or the SAC committees, if you could talk with them or if you know how they might feel and then you got a recommended
local restaurants that might be willing to help us out also? >> So May 16th is like six weeks out >> six weeks >> from this weekend. >> It's also the same day as the recycling event which I think could be
complimentary. >> Um >> oh they're recycling. >> Yeah. Um, personally, I think before school gets out, >> we're gonna have the most people that way. Um, I agree.
>> And after, even though it's a couple weeks longer, we're going to lose people. So, I I don't know like either date. I I personally think the one before school gets out seems more likely to get
more people. And we could even push it like let's get our school ready for graduation. Yeah, >> that would be awesome to help in that. >> I I would be um this isn't necessarily the appropriate time for the audience to
participate, but maybe if you didn't sign up for public comment and you have thoughts on this particular topic, um we can open it up. um you know once we go through whoever did sign up if you wanted to to raise your hand I'd be interested in hearing thoughts from
people who've heard the presentation on that as well um that's why we can get a pulse on that also um because I think I I think everything else it might
looked good um as far as the the day of stuff I think we can we can pull that off if we pick a date where people are available I you probably I think we to say safe anticipate we won't quite hit the full numbers that
we'd want and so it you know we that's a lot of people to give up even half a day. Um so I'd be thrilled if we had 150. I know that doesn't meet the need but I think that would be a really strong turnout honestly. Um, and then I
I do we need we need community participation. I just I want to make sure we're being sensitive to the fact that there's a bit of donation fatigue from the groups that do
participate often. Um, especially if we're looking at like the dinner or donating the the breakfast and lunches for the event. I I love the idea. I just think we need to make sure we're planning contingencies um in case because I know we've we've
had some feedback on on that. I was going to suggest um since the fundraising would be specifically for Coline's bathroom stalls that or dividers that we maybe re approach them
first like the sack or the parent group there >> and see if this is something we would be passionate about. I think that would be a good place to start. >> I think Lis would help us with it.
>> Yeah. Um Jason, I think I might just as a based on what Keegan was talking about, which I've heard too. Um maybe we don't worry about breakfast. Um and then I think I don't know, Cassidy, do they feel like I've been to
the the citywide one where they just cook some burgers or hot dogs afterwards, but they do you know or they always have those donated? So, it's been a combination because in years past there was like we would cook food for people, but then there was some
added like food safety requirements that came into play. So, we ended up having to use stuff that was like either prepackaged or not like it was just there was a lot of like regulation to like work around there. So, I think we ended up moving towards like prepackaged sandwiches or pizza was the thing. So, I
think I guess it I think it would be different if you're like preparing food on site versus like bringing in donated meals and people are just taking it. But I would just want to be considerate of that from a liability perspective. >> What are specific permits you can get? Cuz I know we we did a picnic in the
park that was like open to the community and we had to get specific permits for that and then we had to make sure the food was kept at a certain temperature even though we were curling it there. So I think we can do that. It just takes a little bit of >> What about culinary?
>> What about the our our >> culinary arts? >> Yes. Yeah, maybe reaching out to them and it might be actually might be our lowest cost way to accomplish something like that.
>> I don't know, just a thought. I, you know, I like that the May date in terms of timing as well. And would it be so lovely if we got rain? Maybe not on that day, but we might want
to have a second day already already planned in case there's in case there's rain. Feels like the most important thing is getting that that um coordinator that's going to come in and
work with getting everything set up. So, that seems like our biggest need. >> You want to say Go ahead. >> Sorry. I I was going to ask a question, too. I know we were talking about the fire mitigation and trying to line that up so it was the same date. I wonder if
we couldn't try and schedule that ahead of time so that the um you know they could come in whenever it worked for them and then during this day they would do the cleanup. Is that is that what you were hoping to have our volunteers do? Like fire mitigation crew comes in and
they're the ones cutting down the trees or limming them or whatever you have moving the debris. >> Yeah. Well, I was thinking like something no FLCO would provide the skill labor like if we have to fail any
trees. We do have some. We took out like eight, seven, eight trees last year up here by the old baseball field that had uh died from beetle infestation. Thought we got rid of it, but now we've got like five more. So, we need to get rid of
those. We need to try to nip that in the bud. So, that'll be something they would handle. And then but we have a lot of uh fuel that's on the ground. It's like dead limbs and a lot of raking and stuff. So all that I think could be going on simultaneously as long as we
have somebody there monitoring safety and somebody doesn't get a treat for long. >> Jason, when you talked with Don Moore, did he offer his team to come in as well? >> Yeah, his team would be coming in. So his team usually is is very substantial
in size. And not only are they certified sawyers to cut down the trees, but they have a a group that will do ladder fuel and trim trees that you're not totally cutting down, and they have folks that go through and pick up the sticks off the ground.
>> Then they have rakers come through. So there's >> it's a substantial team. They usually get acres done within a half a day. >> Yeah. >> Very impressive. And we have to then plan for taking all that slash and
either creating a pile for what's the homecoming event or >> fire. There you go. >> Putting that aside for later or getting, you know, bins where we could. But that's a lot of bins. We start here.
Sean and I talked about having a roll off at each location that everything go straight in there and get it off site, get all that fuel off site. >> I think I could get the rolloffs donated. So, that piece I think we can do >> because then you don't have to worry about liability issues with people
coming in with chainsaws. You got certified sawyers coming in. They know what they're doing. They know how to keep the teams organized. He did say he would like he would need some support from on our end whether it be and I didn't go into the volunteer
day really in detail with him yet but um he even said he could use it as an educational opportunity with some students. >> Yes. >> If they wanted. So that we could do that and we could this could be a multi-day >> Yeah. being the fire mitigation if it
needed to be like maybe we have one maybe one area we do with students and they do some education and then maybe another piece of the land we do on the serve day. I think we have a lot of options there. I think John's super nice
guy would be willing to work with us as long as their schedule's open. So I haven't talked to him about either one of these specific dates so I have no idea on that. I do I am tracking that he is recommending that we get this done before middle of May because of the beetle infestation.
Yeah, I was going to say that you want to cut the trees down if it's a beetle problem before they like wake up, which will probably be earlier this year with how warm has it been because as soon as they wake up, like we have trees on our property that we had to cut down and we
like you if you cut them down too late, you can see them flying to the next trees and it's horrifying. It's so gross. Um, and then but there's also like you're supposed to
burn the tree or to so that you get rid of the the beetle because if you just cut the tree down and you don't do anything with it right away then they spread also. Um even if you cut them down before they wake up. Um so that's something we probably want to figure out too since obviously trees
>> right now. Yeah. Okay. >> They come off get them blocked and turn them into firewood. >> You wrap them in plastic to the needles. >> Yeah. We cut the the seven or eight we cut we wrapped in plastic. He was in the winter and had him removed. >> Yeah, >> Jason, would you like me to work with
Don to organize that piece? >> Sure. Okay, that'd be awesome. >> I can reach out to Sack or the parent group at Colin Biden. >> So, I think generally we're we're like, yes, let's do this. I think there's a couple of details we still need to
hammer out. Um, I think probably leaning towards the May 16th date, but open to to community feedback on if there's anything else happening that date that that would interfere. Um, and then yeah, I think we we just we get
creative with any of the things we're trying to bring in. I've got a couple of people I'll kind of reach out to to see if they would take on that volunteer coordinator role. >> If you think of somebody, just shoot me
a text or an email and I'll follow up with them. >> Yeah. Or >> you got a real good relationship with them or somebody here tonight. We'll sign you up right now. >> You got a special badge. >> You get students from every school and you might get wings of
>> Oh, yeah. There you go. That's fancy golden. Um, yeah, but I I love this. I think this is a a great idea. I know we've had some other groups reach out to help in various uh capacities across campuses to fix up
different areas and I and I love that too. um you know so even if it's not part of this event right as a community if you have a special interest in fixing up the softball field or you know I think about
the the fields at Coline all the time we've got so many teams looking for fields and we've got those there um and you know I think an afternoon or a morning with with like you know the middle school softball team if it's something they were interested in just
getting out there with with rakes and kind of putting in some elbow grease um can help make things a lot better and usable for everyone. Um so if you know if you're part of a group that's interested in such things, please reach out because we're certainly open to
having the help that way also. But I'm excited about this. I think we can we can work together on the website so we can get the the volunteer list going right away. Um, do you feel like you have what you need from us to move forward with this other
than the date, I guess? >> Yeah, I think if we can lock in a date before the end of this week because we're I think six weeks we're really pushing that date. Although I like that date the best because we're >> still in school. I think we get a lot more participation that way.
>> Yeah. So we can I'll try to and I'll try to follow up with you by the end of the week on the volunteer coordinator piece. >> Yeah. Yeah. I say unless we hear something to the effect of there's another big event happening that date, let's just go with that one and then
we'll select a rain a rain date. >> Okay. >> Which should probably be be June 6th or after. >> Yeah. >> Because next weekend's graduation memorial weekend. All right. Thank you for putting all that together.
>> Thank you, Cassie. >> You asked a good question. You nailed it. >> Yeah, here we are. >> Careful what you ask, Jesus. >> He always sets up so David to give me this good news.
I wear a jacket next time tonight but >> All right. Um before I I know I'm going to talk about the audit tonight, but first just I wanted to address uh some thing um guess a narrative coming out of
Merit Academyy's letterhead and I think the and I've been to one of the board meetings and I think the same messaging keeps coming out. I just want to take this time to kind of uh set the record straight a little bit.
So, one of the things that I keep hearing is that that I'm underfunding Merit Academy from holding back funds that pass through to them. So, I guess their head mistress challenged me saying, "You're uh you're doing this and
we should have our PPR money a lot faster and read the contract again." So, every time I read it, I come away with a different perspective on it, a little bit different knowledge, and I'm in one sense glad she does that because I think
we're going to save the district a little money. Um, and I'm saying that because I think two things in that agreement um, affect cash flow. So, if we looked
at section 8.2A, it speaks to uh, Merit Academy. So right now the district and we kind of and I might hit this in a little bit later but when I got here in June, so a little bit less than a year ago, found out we were
forwarding fronting money from grants uh some of which they weren't eligible for. So we clawed those back. So really set the record in this fiscal year. If these are reimbursement grants, you have to spend the money like we do. Gather up
your receipts. We'll apply for the reimbursement. Once we get that money, uh, we'll flow that through and that's how this year has been. But also discovered that that's the same if we're talking about state funding as state
shares and property tax. So what I did um, what we've been doing is what's been a common practice and I will say it is a common practice throughout the state for districts that have excess operating cash. We're not in
that position. We weren't in this position this year, last year, maybe even the year before. But what we've been doing is basically Merit presents a budget and it's it's a even budget as far as revenue. So they get an even
aotment 12 months equal payments and I think this has caused some of the the grind there. If you read the actual contract in 8.2A, to a and this is going to make my life a little bit easier, but basically the district
funds merit when the district gets paid. And that seems like the right thing to do. So I've talked to their CFO about three weeks ago and shared that that's where we're headed for the next fiscal year. We're going to be in compliance
with the contract. That's a big that's a big deal. The second one is about the per pupil count. So she's like, "Hey, our per pupil count went up 100 people and you're not funding us anymore in the fall." There's a longer story there that we agreed to
do that. But lo and behold, 8.2b basically says that you use your October count, your state certified count for that whole 12 months. So the state will certify our October count in
December. Our contract says an 8.2b. That's when we adjust our funding to them. So if we owe them money from July through that December, it may be a lump sum. If they owe us money lump sum, so those two things are really
important. Both of them show that we have actually by the contract been overfunding them. By the end of the year, it all washes out. But we've kind of made their life easy by giving them this allowance like every month. But next year, they're going to live on the
roller coaster that we live on, which is, you know, you hold on to your seat and wait, excuse me, wait for that funding to come in. But thought I'd just share that with you as CFO. That's my goal is to write about that contract and
that's what I'm going to do. um unless the contract changes. And interesting to me that that some of these terms and I don't know if that contract got pushed through a little too quick but uh that wasn't talked about
last August. So uh the other thing that is I think common discussion is transportation. So, rereading that contract again because I keep hearing this contract quoted that there's nothing in writing.
Lo and behold, if you read contract section 5.2 and I'm going to read it. There's three sentences there. First one is the district and school acknowledge and agree that transportation will not be provided by the district to students attending the school unless otherwise
mutually agreed in writing. That's I talked to our attorney and that's about are the kids on or off the bus? Are we offering are we providing this opportunity for transportation? Kicker is the second sentence which has never been quoted as far as I know and
the school being merit but says any transportation of students to the school shall be the sole responsibility of the school with all cost borne by the school. pretty simple language. So, they signed
this in August of this year. Uh, I've been withholding transportation cost this year. So, I don't think it should be a discussion item about how they get free transportation. If they wanted it, they should have
actually during the negotiation of this contract maybe spoke up at that time. Let's see the audit update. Actually, let's do this. All right. So, annual audit uh we are going to end
up with a disclaimed opinion. So, the financial statements uh are being prepared by holding. So, we've gotten the trial balance to them. They've done their work, got back to us. Our books match their books, which is
great. First time. I mean the we didn't have to make any adjustments which is really awesome. Um so hing they're preparing financial statements. They're going to have to be reviewed at the same time that we're as we're getting these statements we're uploading to the state
to the data pipeline. So Merritt did furnish me with their trial balance. So we're able to move forward with that. That is a good step. Um so the um the district and whole team will be
preparing that um management discussion agreement that goes in with the audit kind of explaining the whole situation and then they're drafting their integrity report and their balance sheet. Uh they'll be able to do that once the pipeline's done. So I think one
more bullet. So we're aiming and there's no promise. You know, I talked to Holing. They have been phenomenal. So, they're in their busy tax season, and they have kind of fit us in, but we're hoping that April 22nd, the
next time you guys meet here, that Chris will be able to come and present uh if everything goes right. So, if not, we might have to modify that to the next week. But, uh there's no I don't see any real crisis right now financially, and that's been another
rumor floating around. I don't think us or Barrett haven't missed any payments to them. No one's missed payroll. I don't know what all the hoopla was about but it was out there. So, um, you want to go ahead and hit the next one? Actually, go
back. I I want to give a little narrative on our financial bills. So, CDE called me and kind of asked, "How are you guys doing? It's, you know, we hear things and they're thinking where they're hearing from, but anyway, as of
today and as of last week and a month ago, 100% of our bills are paid out there. So, I think that's a great thing. I'm not sure every district can say that. A lot of districts can't say the next thing, which is we have zero
interfund borrowing. So a lot of districts will borrow money there general fund will borrow money from some other fund the student activities or school fund or transportation food service we haven't done that there are no balances there the errand loan so we
borrowed 2 million uh earlier this year and that has been paid off so we still have access there's a $3 million line uh that we have access to but uh that's been paid off at zero. Uh so we have enough cash really on
hand. We've got some receivables out there like Tabosis that we will be collecting, but uh we've got enough cash on hand. I'd love to make it like to the end of the year without needing quote the property tax. But once we hit that
date of April 22nd or the 28th, whatever it is, uh the state the office of state uh auditor will contact teller county and they'll turn on the property tax. So I think we're in a good position there. If we were not, I would tell you. So
feel free to call me anytime on that one. Uh, so the financials, so I put >> David, before you jump ahead, um, I know there's some questions in the community about what a disclaimed opinion is, what that means, how you get to that, if you want to spend just a couple minutes
explaining what that is all about. >> I will a little bit. I think Chris will actually go deeper into it, but a disclaimer opinion is that the the audit firm could not do the full clean audit. So, normally they're going through um
validating all of the expenses, all of the procedure. I mean, they're just doing a full audit. And this year, what they're guaranteeing or they're stamping is that balance sheet is correct. In order to do that, um they call them
plugs. So, hey, you've got this title money. We're not sure what happened. and we don't have time to get this audit done, but we know that that was in this title. So, they'll put a plug and say, "Here's a plug." So, out of $30 million, I think we had a total
plug. Almost all of it is in title one or title funding. And I think I'm pretty sure I know why, but that was that made up like 90% of it. And I think when we went through and did uh in our we did
the reimbursement for title money and then when we hit with Chris, we had to make some adjustments. And I think it those adjustments that we made in classifying threw off uh the not so much that it was spending
on title, but all the codes. I don't if you've seen that long string of of accounting codes. So, our goals is to work through that 100,000 and just button it down and and be done with it.
But out of 30 million to be I was expecting when Chris sent this over that these plugs were going to be big because they're I mean they're a big deal. But when I looked at the number, one of the one of the accounts was like $200 and
$1,200. And it's like, okay, out of 30 million and we got to come up with where $1,200 go. And it's we will find it. But anyway, sorry for the tangent, but uh Chris will explain it more, but that's basically they're stating behind the
balance sheet that that is accurate. And I don't know what the percentage is on that. Um, if it was a full clean audit, we would before he would publish a finan audited full clean audit report, we
would have to have figured out where this 100,000 something. Don't want to say it's not been spent correctly. It has been assigned to the title expenditures, but there were some codes that changed there. But in order for
audit purposes in the future, if we got audited by the state of the feds, those numbers have to be right. So, we're continuing to work to get those correct. >> We're noting too just that none of us preferred the disclaimed opinions that
this wasn't your work. Um this was the previous CFO who left a lot of work undone and this is just getting that cleaned up so that we can continue with clean audits from here on out. >> That is our goal. So um yeah so there
was a lot of work took us longer than we thought to clean it up but um for instance the general account I mean we basically finally got that closed out maybe a month ago from the prior year. That's how messy it was. Currently, we've there's two steps in bank wreck.
So, you kind of go through and tick and tie everything that matches and then move on to what's more what isn't in the accounting system. So, we've actually done that this year through we tick and tied everything through March and we've
got the books the bank wreck finished through December and there's just a little bit in January, February and then March we're working through. So, I'm feeling really good about where we're at this year. >> Meaning we won't have this late of a
audit next. >> Oh, we won't have halting if we do. Yeah. Uh, and it's critical to retain them as an audit firm. So, so Chris, on that note, cuz I asked Chris, I'm like, "We're going to have you next year, right?" And he got quiet and it made me
a little concerned. I'm like, "Chris, what's going on?" He's like, "Well, we've had some discussions. This is the second year in a row for audits going into March and we just can't do that." So, he hasn't agreed and I haven't followed up to close the loop, but we
were talking about if we can't get him a trial balance in November that he could walk away from an engagement agreement. That seems totally fair to me for what they had to go through to help us get to this point is uh above and beyond. And I think doing it a third
year in a row, if I was in his shoes, it's exactly what I would ask for. So, >> and you're feeling confident you'll have that for him. >> What's that? Oh, the trial back. Yeah, I think this team, you know, barring some tragedy not
>> Yeah, we should be right there. So, I'm already We are so far ahead of where the books were from a year ago. >> Yeah. Okay. Up to financials. So, you weren't expecting this. I don't think these are
draft so these aren't publishable and I had to normalize the data. So what I because I wanted to oh the next one's also normalized but normalize is um and it's going to be very pertinent on the
next slide which is comparing let's just jump to that one go down. So what I put together was what does this year look compared to last year for the same time frame January or July 1 through December 31st.
And uh so I put a variance both in dollar amounts and in percentages. So the local revenue you can see that this year we're down 1.3 million in local revenue compared to last year. that happens about 1 million in change
is actually what was well actually this was u this is for July 1 through December 31st. So the um um so that's down 1.3 million there and a lot of that is timing of revenue
coming out of uh Ter County for property tax and that varies kind of significantly month over month. state revenue is just dead out. We kind of know uh we've been in a hold harmless for the last couple years and we are
going next year they're not going to change our revenue again. So um we can expect some similar performance on on hitting the same numbers. Federal revenue is up this year
and largely the variance there is just on filing for reimbursement. So soon as our team got here, uh Brad got here in July, we started uh filing for reimbursement, gathering up documentation, and we're doing the same
thing now to file for more reimbursement. So I think CD recommends you do it quarterly and I was on a school CFO. I don't know if you guys want to hear this, but they all laughed when Glenn said quarterly because they're like it
is so much work. Some of them do it twice a year and some do it annually uh the filing but quarterly if we can do it it's great and then the charter offset so uh we're sending more money to merit this year uh likely we'll be sending
them more next year compared to this year. So you can see your revenues are down uh 1.6 million through that six-month time frame. And then on the expense side, a little
bit better news. So salaries from last year to this year have dropped in that six-month period. A little over a million plus uh I guess million two if we add it in benefits. And we've got a ways to go because last
year I is not going to come in as a money maker or a positive net income from the numbers. I've seen the purchase services pretty much dead on
supplies. So supplies looks a little weird because most of the supplies get ordered early in the year and this budget is actually only seven is half. So the budget annually for supplies is 1.4 million.
And I don't think we're going to spend they've really we've really been disciplined on supplies. So I don't think we're going to come anywhere near budget on supplies. And then is Jason gone? All
right. We can talk about facilities. So uh but we did have some significant emergency because he doesn't have a budget really. So when we had a couple boilers and that large rooftop >> unit go out um that gets expensive in a
hurry. I've looked back and obviously you can see some expenses hit last year and at the same time frame and we've got to work this into the budget. It has to be in there. We can't have these emergency surprises coming along
anymore. So same period year-over-year um the actual net loss has dropped 285,000. So we didn't lose as much as we lost last year. So
>> going back to this this emergency facility needs I think that um what you were talking about earlier about not forwarding funds to merit before we receive it. um having cash on hand to be able to address those facilities
emergencies as they come up even when you know hopefully we have a better budget for him next year so he's got a buffer there but but even if you know there's a leak or you know something none of us expected happens right um the district is responsible for repairing
those regardless of what building it's in and so having that cash on hand allows us to actually fix that right >> cash can cover a lot of problems. So let me go back to let's go back up the
slide. So we'll look at the bud look at the budget. I think I misspoke earlier on on the where we supply that was actually actual. So actuals were pretty close. We were a little bit less this year
or more. Sorry. Not going to switch slides back and forth anymore. Lesson learned. All right. So, now we're on budget taxuals. So, the uh local revenue is uh we're under budget by 5 million to
be expected because twothirds of our revenue for local is going to come in March through June. So, very small amount of that comes in in the first part of the year. So, that one doesn't concern me. State revenue again is uh really close to what the budget
was because that's a highly predictable number. and they tell us exactly what we're going to get per month. Federal revenue. So this uh goes into kind of the team. Um so there's a million in
um the budget as far as federal revenue goes. So we have to spend that file for reimbursement and get those dollars largely. Um I think IDA might flow through from both these but we're posed to invoice them for some ECEA in and and
IDA money. It's tentatively about a half a million that should be coming in. Um so we'll these numbers will as the year goes by these budget to actuals will start coming a lot closer and then the charter offset. So you can see that this
year we actually have sent more money to merit and the I think Carol mentioned this but so next year is going to be a little bit different how it all works out but the at risk and that's one of the things that they keep saying send us
our at risk money and I'm like that doesn't seem right that they you've got 25% of at risk students we have 75 but you want a third of the money and they're like yes We want that. So I escalate, they escalated it to CD, I
escalated it to CD. CD on the phone with their senior leadership and they're like, "Um, we're going to get back to you." So then today I was on that CFO call with the local area CFOs from the Pikes Peak region and CD reported that
the attorney general is actually looking into this and how to interpret the law because the law makes no sense to me on how they've put in um like ELLL money or the extended high school. There's no students at all there that are in any of
these programs, but yet we're supposed to pass through the way the law can be interpreted is we pass through a third of those dollars. And u so we'll see what happens on that. But I hope the right thing my goal is if the
money follows a student, there's a student that needs uh ELLL, that that money is going to help them. And right now, the way some people interpret the law, it's like no, that isn't. And uh people I even agree with will say one
thing and I've been on calls and you hear two things in one phone call. So hopefully the attorney general will figure this out and uh give us some direction. I hope this if the direction isn't the way I feel it should go and that's my opinion. I hope that the state legislature will say we want the kids
who need the services >> get the money. >> Exactly. So um so budget to actual. So here's somewhat of a bright spot. So salary, wages, stipens are about a half a million under budget and
we're still working. I think Ginger just talked about that as far as re uh next year if some through attrition some very selective uh reductions changing some hours that we have to go deeper and
we're planning on it and it good thing for me I mean everyone's just focused on how can we retain excellence in education that's number one and then you know let's figure out what resources we have to try to try to support and gain
that um the purchase professional services is fairly flat there as well. Some of that is timing. I think we're going to hit um some things this spring like legal and I would say the overage
there is largely due to the cleanup of the accounting books. So, uh, before I got here, Manurva Consulting, who, uh, was here for all of last year and, uh, Aspen
Accountancy was here. So, um, that was not in the budget, uh, for those services, but they were necessary to keep money flowing through the district. So, um, this is where I mentioned the supplies. So, sorry about that. But 350
is half a year's budget. We've spent 702. We're not going to spend much more than 702. So, uh, I think we'll come in under budget by the end of the year. And then facilities um is a little bit over there and those
are those emergencies. And um so total expenses um are above budget and a lot of that is into that benefits line item and that could have been an
error going back in the spreadsheet but using kind of the rule of thumb that benefits represents about 25% or so that 8 1.8 million is the correct number. Um the 1.2 2 billion million in the budget
is not correct. So the bottom line looks awful. And again, that is what a bottom line's typically going to look like. If you flip back to last
year, you can see that it was 3.8 million in the hole at the same time. And that's just the way school finance works. So now March through June we get you know twothirds of our funding in in
the B books balance there. So >> and less of the spending >> pardon me >> and less of the spending. >> Um I still didn't hear >> less of our expenses happened at that time but more of the funding. >> Correct. Yep. And that's that's the
whole state bond with the errand loan. And I I will just let you know right now, you're probably expecting it, but we will participate in the errand loan again. Um just back the napkin, I I'm thinking our
fun 10 reserves are going to be around three and a half million and some of that's going to depend on reimbursements. Are we getting those in or not? But that's going to be down significantly from, you know, I think Rob's
graphing this out, but it's not a pretty picture long term. >> All right. I did, if I can have a few more minutes. >> Yeah. >> I wanted to talk about the letter to the editor. >> I was going to ask.
>> Yeah. So, the letter to the editor today, I think Stephanie Dickinson, who's doesn't have kids here. I think she's a Merit Academy parent um and doesn't have anyone in in the cheer program currently. I don't know if she
did previously or not, but anyway. So, what she raised I wish I could have talked to her before uh because um I was aware that there were questions. There weren't like accusations or anything, but there were
questions. So, the high school principal and the athletic director and I met uh with uh Mr. Mrs. Gutz and Kelly back on March 13th and we had a I think a really good meeting. Uh ended on a
very positive note, but they shared information that we didn't have as administration and we shared information that they didn't have as parents. So, it was a really good exchange. Uh, what we learned was
that their question mark was fundrais fundraising for nationals, which isn't something that the district does. So, if stu, you know, if there's a program that makes it past state into a national or a multi-reional area, uh, basically a club
is created and that club does the fundraising, but it's not part of the school. Uh we didn't know that the cheer program had individual fundraising accounts like the books. They had an Excel spreadsheet. Each one of them was
raising funds to use for to cover their own expenses. We weren't aware of that. Um >> by individual you mean for each um athlete? >> Yes. Yep. For Yeah. For each athlete. So, and they didn't go to nationals
and there were I think a third of the team. There were some injuries. There were some family situations that took some of the athletes out, but um that would have required a lot of new
choreography work and um they didn't have the funds raised that you know they were fundraising for nationals which we didn't know about but they hadn't raised enough funds really to get there. I think the athletic director was working out. We've got some vans with the school
and we actually solved that for them, but they still voted not to go. Now, what do we share with the parents? What did they learn? That the fundraising form that came to the district didn't say anything about nationals. It just said fundraising butter braids for the
cheer program. Great. that's an easy sign off uh for them to do. Uh on their side, they had some history, so they kind of knew what they were doing, but the paperwork and our athletic directors
knew and I knew. We didn't know really what they were doing. It wasn't on the form. So, um there's some education that had happened there. um the overall which the parents didn't know but the cheer program ended in the red. We're trying
to solve that with them. Um and that's kind of how that meeting ended on a positive note was you got a cheer program. It's in the red. You know, is there a way to build some team unity and do a fundraiser? You guys could get your
program at a break even point. Start next year fresh. And that's kind of where we left it on March 13th. how did they get in the red? And the former head coach uh whose husband ran
this program, but um he build $400 per participant at this camp and she collected or asked for 300. So out of 15 participants immediately, this program was $1,500 in the red. Um, and then
there were some other expenses that weren't in their budget. Uh, they had a banquet which is great and I'd supported that and I would have donated to that and then some gifts for the graduating cheer seniors. So that's how they ended up in the red. So if we really look at it and we went through every cheer
participant, so out of the 15 12 actually looking at their individual account that they were keeping, 12 of the 15 were in the red. Two of the three that were in the black I we met with and they were good. I don't know who the third one who was in
the black but it was like a $100. It wasn't significant. And so this came I don't know how we'll work it out but we'll work it out with them. Um but I think something else in that article was that the administration
was asking the former coach to contribute to shore up the program. At least that's how I read it in the article. That is absolutely not true. Um I talked to this athletic director and myself. There's no one here that was
asking for that. From what I heard, it was a volunteer that they volunteered it. I'm going to do this. Um but there was no ask. I was surprised when I heard that today. Um, oh, but anyway, neither.
>> I think the other thing that I found particularly concerning and why I reached out to you this morning when I saw the article um was was the comment about this parents asking for funds and then the district telling them no, it had been spent somewhere else. So, it
sounds like that is not the case at all. the any of the money that I have like we've looked at and we've looked at it before March 13th and we actually did do a deeper dive after March 13th. The
money was spent in the cheer program. Now the banquet and some gifts for the seniors was not part of what they were fundraising for. Uh they they were fundraising unbeknownst to us for nationals. Um, and then the cost, the
extra $100 for their camp, like if they're fundraising for nationals, but they're $100, $1,500 short in the camp, you could argue that they're fundraising here, but the money was
spent for camp, but it's all within the cheer program, of which it's negative $2,400, which um, barring I hope they do a fundraiser. I think it being a former athlete and doing things as a team, it's a good team building experience and I
think it teaches some good civic responsibility if they close the books on their program and I hope that's the way they go. But no money I can find was spent outside of the tier program of the money that they raised if that answers the question you're going to but we did
learn from this. So I just wanted to share some things. uh anytime there let me make lemon made out of lemon. So um we want to bring the cheer program in alignment with the other athletic programs. Um and how I mean that is if
they're in the non chess if they go past the state they're going to do what the other teams do and the new head coach for cheer is on board with this 100% which is great. Um, but anyway, they'll they'll have a fundraising. We have a
cheerle cheerleading club and we're not part of that. We don't take money for that. They all do it on their own. Uh, coaches will not be setting fees. Um, that's the athletic director's job. And we're working on that now for next year.
And coaches are not to collect money. And so the best way and I think this is going to be the rule is that fees get paid through one of the electronic platforms. Right now Infinite Campus is there almost all the fees get paid through there. If it's a non-district
uh participant or athletes uh we're we're this close to signing with a software called Bound. Uh so one of those two portals is where fees will get paid. We don't want people bringing cash, checks, whatever. Um, so anyway,
those are the things that we put in play and we did this back on the 13th. That's why if I'd received a call and explained it, this was all pretty much buttoned down almost a month ago. >> Yeah. >> But appreciate the opportunity to kind of respond to that.
>> Yeah. I want to share too um when I saw the letter to the editor, I reached out to a parent who has a student on the cheer team and then she also gave me the coach's number. So, I got to talk to the
former coach. And um just want to confirm that they also said the author of the letter was not a current parent of a cheer student and that um the parent didn't even know this this person
and um um sorry lots of details on it. they uh felt the artic the letter was mostly untrue and it especially the part about
the funds being spent from the district and um that they had it wasn't any fault of the district that they did not go to the to nationals. they chose as a team and decided as a team to not attend it.
And later, you know, when the nationals actually were supposed to happen, there was an ice storm in Dallas and it was cancelled anyway. So, the team, you know, it wasn't any funding issue that caused the team to not go. Um
they also um yeah the the coach confirmed that she was not asked to >> Okay, good. >> reimburse from her siphons to cover that
funding issue. So, I think this is a lesson of misinformation and I love that you right away acknowledged that there were things steps to take, policies to make to fix moving forward. Um, and I think that's
the right way to respond to these issues. And I also, um, sorry, I had a really good last thought. I I just I felt really bad for the cheer team that they were used as as a um a
way to create a negative message and that that's really what we want to not happen. We don't want our students to be caught in the middle and and that was why I reached out directly to the parent because I wanted to make sure that if there was something that we were doing
wrong, we could fix it. And I'm all about like we can step in a direction and and redirect if we're doing it wrong. Like it's okay. And so and that was my heart for the cheer team was just to make sure that they were treated
correctly and hearing from them they were. So that's Yeah. Um, so I I appreciate you jumping in and taking my phone call early this morning when I when I was like, what is happening? Um, I do want to kind of make
an announce or a message out to to our community, right? Um, I'm extremely proud to be sitting with the people up here that I'm sitting with. Um, I got a message from every person on this board asking if we knew what was going on with
this when they saw the letter. Every person on this board took steps to find out more information to make sure that we knew what was happening and we could fix it if we had done something wrong. Like I said, I reached out to Ginger. She set up a meeting, David and I, and
Ginger got on a phone call this uh morning, afternoon, I forget. Anyway, um to to kind of go through what had happened to cover any additional things we needed to any next steps. um you know, David shared with me the processes he had put in place after that initial
meeting to make sure um that that nothing like this happened again. And so um I want the community to know that if you have um you know you've heard something or you have a feeling that something isn't being done correctly, this is a board
you can reach out to. You can email us, you can call us, you can send us Facebook messages, whatever is the best way for you. I want you all to know that we are a group that you can reach out to and we will listen to you and we will get to the bottom of whatever it is
you're concerned about. Um I know that has not always been the case and so people have have become accustomed to having to do these kind of um you know putting people on blast to get things changed and and I I that's not necessary
now. And if if you reach out to us and we're not doing things that that make you feel better, then go ahead, call us out on it. But um you know, I'd appreciate it and I think everyone here would and probably the cheer team uh to to be given the opportunity to address
those things um before they're they're put in the newspaper. And I'm going to work under the assumption that this person just got bad information from someone they trusted and they were very concerned about our students. And I appreciate the community wanting to help
students and making sure that they're getting the funds that belong to them and that, you know, any fund raise money is being spent appropriately. Um, you know, again, I wish she had reached out to any of us to get um information from the people who would know before posting
letters to the editor. Um, and I think it's just something for us to to keep in mind, too. Um I had reached out to the courier in the past about letters to the editor. Um and they do not fact check those. Um anyone can can kind of put
what they want there and if it they're selected they get posted. So just because it's been published in the newspaper in the editor to the editor section does not mean that it has been validated in any way. Um, so again, you know, community reach out if you have
questions or concerns, but um, thank you, David, for addressing that. You're >> welcome. And, you know, I've done my research, did actually this about a month ago, but if anything else comes to light that I missed, more than happy to look at it and and find a way to resolve it. So,
>> thank you. >> Through the administrative reports, All right. >> Yeah. Um, so that brings us to committee reports. That means that you're up. >> Okay. So, yes, we talked about all those
things. have to bring it. >> Um so on the 2nd was our last back meeting um for the year and we got a board of education report about the new board
member and Ginger being selected as our superintendent um our next board meeting which I'm present at. Uh the state of the district meeting that's happening on the 28th and then we went over budget priorities. We spent a bulk of our time talking about
what was important for each school. Um, underst staffing is a big one. Um, I mean, two teachers per grade level would be ideal. Extra support. Um, having paras in the classroom would be great.
Um, yeah. Uh, then we hit professional development, supplies, and equipment. Um Jason is on facilities and that's great. Um I look forward to the May uh
community development. That'd be great. Uh testing updates and participation. Um our opt outs for school is great. Um we got zero at Summit, nine at Coline, 11 with the junior and senior high and we're still waiting to hear back from
Merit on what their numbers are. They say it's low, if any at all. So, that's nice. And we all took the strategic plan survey. Um, so
it's a strong foundation for each of our schools to move forward with and I'm excited to see what that comes up with along with the rest of our track and deck members that are here. So, yeah. Any questions? >> I know that was there.
How's the participation, Bridget? Do are the the pretty much the people that are on the deck, are they attending the meetings? >> Yes. Good. We have very few absentes at sack or deck. Good >> and and good participation from the
people who attend. A lot of talking. I find it very helpful for being somebody that was on the outside for so long and not understanding how decisions were made. This is a great insight and we have very receptive board members and
participants and everything. So, it's very eye opening and appreciated. >> I just want to say thank you for coming and doing the presentations. I know tonight was a long night um but I think it's really great for the board to hear from the deck at first. So, thank you
for that. Yeah. >> And I hope that when you see the survey results and you see the next iteration of the strategic plan, you'll see the bud budget priorities that you discussed in that plan as well that you'll be able to say, "Ah, there they are and we're
listening." >> Yes. um for future next year's um sack and deck and all that fun stuff. It would be nice to see us maybe a little higher in the thing because by the time we stand here, you guys have already covered everything. So, I'm going to say
yes, we spoke about that. >> Thank you. that before administrative reports said yeah >> usually that >> that was idea >> I think that's our theme
>> yes um okay so that finally brings us to public comment my statement here so please be aware that any personnel or individual student matters are considered confidential under Colorado law and it is out of respect of the law and our employees and
students that we require those discussions to take place privately in executive session. Individual comments are limited to 3 minutes or a total of 15 minutes total per particular topic. The intent of public comment is to give the board of education the opportunity
to hear your comments. However, the board will make no decision and take no action on public comment during the meeting. Garrick, just one. Okay. And remember, you're still um you still have the opportunity to raise your hand if you'd
like to comment on anything else that has been covered. >> Yeah, you thought it was time that somebody say thank you. It's a pleasure to stand here and simply say thank you for your time, your
dedication, and your professionalism. It was difficult to attend board meetings for four years watching the attempt to dismantle our public schools. I hope that public knows what a mess you were dealt and that you have much more
to do to stabilize the district and proceed with growth. As a stakeholder, I'm still sickened by the fact that approximately $5.5 million of our $10 million reserve was spent and I think
that was mostly over a period of three years um with the last board and the superintendent leaving a terrible financial hardship that you have to deal with. I don't envy your position and after hearing um the
report financial report and um the last comment about the courier as a frequent flyer and the courier I will say that um I think when disinformation comes out and I I've dealt with that before and especially
from a board member of the district um that it's important for the community uh for you to address the community about that disinformation. And uh just the details are the letter to the editor is 250 words and they
count them. and um you can do that and but by Friday morning is the deadline for accepting comments and I hope that someone within your network um takes the time to answer that because I think it
would be really important to the community. But once again, thank you. It is just so nice to come to these meetings and get information, get transparency, get reports that have not
been done in four years. Thanks again. you're telling me from this angle. >> I just wanted to address your leave or if you had any feedback. Uh so May 16th is state track. I um but
I honestly don't think we're going to avoid everything. So at first I was like, "Oh, dang. I want that family there." Uh, but I just don't know that we're going to be able to pick a better one. But you had just asked, "Is there anything?" >> Yep.
>> Um, Jason is gone, but I love I love his idea of the job details. Like, you know, he says, "Detail a vehicle, clean windows." I just think that's going to be really helpful in getting people
engaged. As far as I know, the only difference between paid signup genius and free signup genius is the popup ads. I'm not sure if there's any additional functionality. Um, and you also get more
templates, which we don't need a fancy. Um, if it if maybe I don't know, maybe if it's paid it allows you to upload a waiver or something, but that would be worth looking into. Um, I was going to say if there's any way to get by with a checkbox waiver, that is going to be
huge. I know when we were looking at our 5K run possibility, Aaron Salt and I like he seemed okay with a checkbox waiver for that. So, fingers crossed that the attorney says okay. Um,
as a participant, I don't think I need lunch. I think that's really sweet. But if you do a a mixed grill like of burgers and dogs, then I would say keep breakfast super simple like granola bar
and apple or something, you know, like granola bar and cuties, whatever. Just something really really simple because we don't need to spend money there is my opinion. Um, in terms of advertising, is
there an opportunity before, like well before May 16th where a paper, a quarter sheet could go home with every student? Uh, could the courier give us a space for an ad as their contribution to this? Um, to
engage the community and whoever the volunteer coordinator is, if they could ASAP get in touch with each PTO president or organizer. Hopefully, they'll be having a meeting before this time and if they're not,
they could get it out on team reach. Uh, and then the other thing I think we should think about is student participation. Like what age do we make it okay for students to participate? Like it'd be easier for us to come as a
family if we could bring our kids. Uh, and then Kim wanted me to wanted me to mention um service hours for high schoolers. So, NHS, Beta Club, Key Club, all those. And she also wanted
me to mention that should we have in mind a Okay, we didn't get it all done. Let's have another date at the end of summer or beginning of fall um as a followup.
>> That's it. Those are my thoughts. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Uh all right. So that brings us to the consent agenda. So look for a motion. >> I make a motion we accept the consent
agenda. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> I >> I pass. Um so that brings us down to discussion
and information items. First up there is the strategic plan update. Um, so to kick us off there, um, we did have our strategic plan up on our district website for about three weeks, four, three and a half, something with
it. Um, with a with a survey open, we put it out in as many places as we could to to make sure we got feedback and presented at a city council meeting and let them know about it and ask for feedback from from that group and anyone who was there. Um, we got
I was hoping for more responses. Honestly, we got 67. Uh, but we will work with what we get. Um, I think people have the opportunity. So um
yeah I think yeah uh generally strong uh comments um positive comments I think overall um some comments on specific language which
I think we can take into consideration um you know different interpretations of what words mean and we had spent a good bit of time in our um work session kind of debating some of these words and what would mean what to different people and
you know at some point we just had to end that meeting because it went 80 hours and hope people would give us that feedback so I'm glad they did. Um so um operational integrity was was
pretty much the the major uh priority that that people were agreeing with which I think makes total sense. Um you know financial health got you know 56 of the 67 as their top um thing which
again I think makes total sense um given the the current situation. So um you know obviously we'll keep that um safe campuses was another one that was really important to everyone and then academic excellence
um educator talent student engagement community engagement um what kind of how those fell in order um I don't know if you guys have any other things you'd like to >> one thing that was brought up at the
back meeting and I saw in the comments as well >> was the just the format of our mission and vision if we would want to use a more accepted format for school
districts specifically and um I reached out and to ask um I don't want to name name but the help but yeah and um have
some feedback on that that I can send to you guys in email um if we want to spend more time on it or I think it's worth looking at. So if you want to send that to us if it's yet was brought to our attention that school districts in particular have a specific formula for
creating mission statements. I was not aware of that been part of writing mission statements in other organizations but not at a school before. So, we've had some things specifically used in Illinois because a teacher and I was a trainer in that. Um, but I've seen it done different ways in
different districts. So, I'm assuming they're all pretty similar. But then, yeah, I mean, it just kind of depends on what you really want to spend your time on, right? >> Yeah. I are are
we at a place that we're ready to clean it up, finalize it, >> lock it down be my hope. I mean, I would really we have the state of the district >> at the end of April. My personal goal would be that we have this >> buttoned up and ready to present them.
And then also just for for David to be able to and the and the buildings, right, each building to be able to kind of look at their own budgets based on the strategic plan and the priorities. >> I I think it makes sense to now maybe
have two board members work together to to kind of clean it up and make it into something that is workable and makes sense to everybody. and I you put more
than two people word smithing and doing something and it's too much. So that would just be my suggestion at this point in time. >> Do you think that following like any additional feedback from other board members first like
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. And maybe maybe that's it. Maybe we um if we if there are two people and I am thinking of two specific people up here. Um push me to really work on that. Um >> yeah. Yeah. But I I it it makes sense to
me that then we give any feedback directly to them and see if they can >> come up. I will ask you if that's what you're asking. You volunteer Cassidy.
>> Yeah. Yeah. That those Hey, those are the two I was thinking of. >> Does that sound good? >> Yeah. Do you want to do you want to send us all the information you found and then >> you guys can work if you want.
>> But my goal is to get it out quick. again. But but we've got great leaders at each of our campuses. They can look at the draft right now, right now, tonight to know where the budget is probably going within, you know, >> right? >> 90% of
>> what's in there. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> What would be changing is not the priorities. I don't think it's it's how we format and present and >> fade some things. >> I think one thought I did have too because to your point about the sort of the sample size on the responses,
>> Yeah. is that we could sort of have the draft present it as such and also use the state of the district as almost like a town hall opportunity for like any refinement on that because that's really when we're going to get people from outside of the district who are looking at it or they have they'll have an
opportunity. So, I think that might be like and to Rob's point, I don't think that we're going to we would do any wholesale changes, but it might give us enough to where we can be responsive to the people who wouldn't normally receive like um the the district communication if they weren't on the email list, they
didn't happen to read like we did a pretty good job of trying to create that outreach around it. But I think that could be one more important touch point where we could ask people to react to it knowing kind of like presenting the situation. This is what we've learned. This is what we've heard. Yeah. >> And I think there's also an important
piece too like this. The data that we're looking at right now is really only representative of the quantitative feedback from the survey, but I feel like we've gotten all kinds of feedback, right? Whether it's from teachers or it's from um DACK and SAC. So I think that we probably in order to move
forward need to um kind of aggregate the feedback in some meaningful way. I think that might be a good opportunity to meet with um to maybe Rob and I sit down with Ginger and like talk about what are you hearing cuz this I think probably reflects the general direction, but it
might need some real specific fine-tuning and I I really don't think that the community at large despite our best efforts has a very clear picture of like the opportunity to provide feedback and this could be our last chance to really do that in an open conversation
before we finalize and I think that's a good idea. I will say a lot of Sorry, my eyelash is poking me in the eye. I know. Um, a lot of the the conversation that I was part of or that I heard around the the strategic plan
was people kind of jumping into the actual deliverables of each, right? So like they saw this the the headline of the strategic plan and then like the priorities and then they started discussing specific deliverables to that and which ones they wanted to do first.
And I think it's important and and we can distress this in the the state of the district conversation um that this is still just very high level, right? This is how are we separating it out? How are we deciding which groups are going to take ownership of each of these
things so that they can plan that and it's not necessarily getting to the you know what is the what is the deliverable yet or you know who's the specific person who's going to own it. It's just that we're up here right now. And I think naturally like this was a great opportunity for us to hear more free
form of like what's important to you, right, as a first pass. However, I think the final version of the strategic plan needs to have more structure and it needs to have actionable goals against it. So it doesn't have to have the level of detail to your point of like actual deliverables, but I think instead of
just saying safety and security is important to us, we can actually say this is how we're going to try to move the needle in this time even if it's still high level. So I think that this like then taking the plan, reformatting it, being responsive to qualitative inputs and then presenting it back to
the community gives us a chance to say that we heard you. This was important. This is what you said was important to you and this is how we're going to build that plan. And now we want your feedback on what this looks like and then we're going to we're going to finalize it and we're going to run with it. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And at the m at the same time the staff
is also using what's in there to finalize the budget. >> Yeah. You're right. >> We can do two things at once. >> Yeah, >> at least two things. >> Maybe more than two. >> Don't ask me to juggle. >> Bill, do you want to specify like any
expectations on action items and specific to the strategic plan so that Rob and I have a clear directive or we know exactly what our next deadline would be? >> Well, um, we have our next work session on >> Thursday, April 23rd, I believe. Yes. So
I think we should have something at least close to final of this next draft by then. So we can do >> advance of that work session, right? >> Yeah. >> Advance of the uh state of the district because that's our last meeting before the state of the district. >> For sure.
>> So to have whatever you're you're going to compile have it completed by that work session so we can kind of go through it and see if there's any last tweaks we need to make before we present it. >> Yeah. Um, >> so maybe that Monday, what is it be like the 21st? So I'll give everybody a couple of days to review and then come
back from that beg. >> Um, and then I think it's just looking through all the information, all the feedback specific data and overall trends to see what tweaks need to be made. Um, and then if you wanted to start adding some specifics in there, I think we could.
But my my thought was that we would set up these higher level spaces, then pick who's responsible for those particular things and let them kind of present to us what they think a reasonable deliverable would be, right? Like cuz
like for safety and security, right? I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I know the best way to keep all of our buildings the most secure, but I I I want to say that safety and security is important. And then I want to go to Ginger and whoever helps you and say,
"Okay, you tell me how do we do that?" Um, so that that's kind of like I don't I don't know that you need to get into those details because we want to lean on the experts to tell us what that looks like and then we can approve it at that point. >> Yeah. And that would be an opportunity for the experts to respond back during
final coordination, the line in lineup where we were like an example would be 15% of our students involved with workplace learning opportunities by 2028. Yeah. >> Well, that 15% number is too low by state. So our experts can tell us what that number is, >> right? Yeah.
>> And that's where that final cord we can put it in there, >> right? >> Whatever comes back will be the corrected line in. So maybe what you guys can do is work with Ginger to help figure out who should own those specific areas and we can add that in so that we
can get their their specific feedback. >> Yep. >> Does that feel doable? >> I think that'd be easier just well along those lines just to send it out for court to the campus leadership to the principles >> and then they they know how to turn it
to. >> Why put that on us and Ginger? They know. Yeah. >> to get that input and and they get their comments consolidated, send them back. >> Yep. >> Are you wanting leadership to have that
back by a certain date then? >> I'm just asking because I know this is a really time >> testing. I think it might be worthwhile for us to meet and try to make sense of the feedback first and then turn it around and maybe send something out to district
leadership, give them an opportunity to respond and then come back to the work session and we might even be able to like reconcile or finalize then. >> Um, but yeah, >> sorry. >> We might be able to add it to I think our next leadership meeting is I think it's the 22nd.
>> Okay. So I know it's not but it is a it is a dedicated time with the principles where we could have conversations and yeah put it on our agenda now so that we get it covered. >> I think the other thing too is that we also have now the feedback on the budget priorities from sack deck and I think
that should influence this even though it's not direct feedback to the strategic plan. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And I and I think this is I I honestly don't foresee a time where we're like and this is the final and we will never adjust it. Right. this is we need to get it to a working point and
then we can continue to to add and beef it up right as we get more information. But I just want it to get to a point where we can present it in a confident way and say this is this is kind of the outline that we're using to help drive the decisions we're making. And when
we're making decisions sitting here or you know Ginger and David are making decisions on budget, they are basing it off of this and they can say I made this decision because this is our priority, right? Like I wanted to get it to that point and we can add things or or move them around as things change. But like
that that's kind of my vision is get us that >> and each line each line item then ties back to the student, right? >> Shows that clearly. >> Yeah. >> Cool. Well, I'm excited. >> I feel like this is a big step for the
>> district that hasn't been done in a lot. So, >> uh, all right. Well, that brings us to the state of the district. So, we already kind of started discussing um that I'm just going to turn to the page here. I have a question while you're working
on it about state of the district. Yeah. Um, we we are planning on the auditorium. Is that correct? Are we planning on live streaming recording whatever? Is that a >> is that is that a possibility
slashchallenge slash whatever >> we're calling you in sorry >> for the state of the district at in the auditorium. Will we be able to live stream from there? Um I I do know we have
>> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Okay. I appreciate that. >> Um All right. So state of the district is set for Tuesday, April 28th at 6 PM in the auditorium as we stated. Um, so
I'll be presenting. My my goal is to have the strategic plan to be able to talk through. Um, Ginger's going to be talking as well. And then David will give financial kind of overview and and um snapshot. And then Karen Haml will
also give a academics overview. So we'll we'll cover all of those great areas. Um, again, it's it's letting the community know where we are right now, where we're going, um, what things we've changed, what we keep the same, um, how they can
get involved. >> Um, and then I we did discuss having some form of open dialogue with the people there. Is that still something you're wanting to add as part of that?
>> Sure. trying to think of the best way to handle that like in a way that can be productive. Um >> I feel like one way to do it is that um like immediately at the end I've seen this done at like conferences or things like immediately at the end we could have a form ready for people to
like give us directly give us their feedback like scan a QR code on screen and say give us your feedback so that >> we can accommodate a large volume of inputs right away based on what people are thinking in that moment. We could also consider doing something like a Q&A, but that could be harder. Um, so I
think I like the idea of like give us your feedback and maybe put a QR code up and we just have an open-ended forum and give people an opportunity to >> share their comments or react to the strategic plan as it's been presented. That could be that could be one way. >> Other ideas. >> I think that would be a really great way
to capture the information efficiently >> and then you could always talk about it >> Yeah. at another meeting. And and I would say too maybe each of us just kind of um plan on or we can invite people afterwards if they have if they reacted to something or they wanted to come talk to us like all of us just be available
for conversation. >> Yeah. I was inviting and running away to the end. >> Yeah. And I mean but it'll be I mean it'll be an evening thing. But I think just making that really clear like hey if there's something that you heard or you want you have a question or a concern you want to raise like we're all going to be here for you know 20 30
minutes come talk to us. we're right here, you know, just to be make make ourselves available but also give the opportunity for possibly anonymous feedback too if people are watching and they just want to share. >> I think you know the um maybe in that that QR code that you scan and feedback
also have you know if you have a question if if this has created a question in your mind submit it here and then we can work to address those at the next board meeting or at some point in time. I wonder if it'd be possible too, and maybe this is going too far, but
like a lot of people that do um like webinars, right, they have a running commentary of questions as they're discussing it and they can you can go back and look at it. This would require some technology on stage and and someone who could help
filter through some of the questions. But if there were questions that came up that we could address right there on stage, that might be good too where you know, okay, someone submitted this question, you know, and we can we can kind of talk to it real time. Um, this way there is some of that back and forth
without necessarily handing a mic out. >> That could be tough. You could also offer the opportunity in advance too to say if there are questions that you want addressed at the state of the district, let us know. >> Yeah. >> That way you're not trying to >> maybe it would be hard to stay under an hour. I think if we're
>> I I think we still plan for an hour of like the presentation part and then if we are committed to staying later and people who want to hear more can but that's not like the the meat of it. >> I you know the although we do have staff to think of so I don't want to volunteer you guys for staying too much later either.
>> You know the the the concern that I have about the submit a question and we try to get it while we're on there is that there may be some that we're like okay we can answer this and some that we can't. Yeah. >> And the criticism will follow that I submitted a question and they ignored it
or you know that sort of thing. I almost feel like that piece >> could put us in at risk of of looking unprepared or choosing the softballs and you know that sort of
thing. So maybe maybe not the live question. Maybe we answer those when we've had time to to look at them and formulate a a factual, clear, thoughtful response.
>> Just a thought end up resulting in another like forum type open house. >> Yeah, that's true. >> That just answers the questions. >> You have a Q&A. we put up on the board maybe on our board page with questions we received and the answers to them.
>> Yep. >> I like that. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> That's less work that night anyway. >> Yeah. Um Okay. Anything else we want to cover on this? I know we're going to go into this a whole lot more in our work
session, so we'll have a whole lot more time to to spend on that then. >> Would I don't know like my thought is just food. um if we're going to do anything and if if you want help
because yeah I don't think the plan was to provide food for attendees that would be a lot or do you mean for us >> well I was meaning refreshments because you know our the other examples we have of of state of the city the county they
they had sponsors who offered the breakfast and so I >> was still like 20 >> or they paid for That's true. >> Isn't that Isn't that organized by chamber sometimes? >> Yeah, they are. >> So, I don't know. I was eating these
little donuts for dinner. >> Donut breakfast for dinner. >> Anyway, I don't want to add more on your plate but >> I know food does bring people. It does.
That's true. It's true. It's something to think about funds permitting. Um, okay. Uh, sustainable funding task force. Speaking of funding, would you like to jump into that? >> Yeah, absolutely.
Um, so we the sustainable funding task force had our first meeting on April 3rd. Um and at that meeting and on that task force are myself, Laura, um David Curatar, um Tamara Buttery, David
Buttery, Rebecca Parrot, Carol Harvey, and Steve Wolf. And I um I invited those people specifically because of their understanding of um uh mill levies, taxes, typical school
funding mechanisms and also um uh some unusual and creative mechanisms. Um and they they were all there and we um this is the purpose that I shared with them. The sustainable funding task force force
will research and evaluate additional financial options for Woodland Park School District delivering comprehensive findings to the board of education to guide future strategic decisions. Um our plan is to have four total meetings. We
um talked about different um mechanisms for funding and divided up tasks to do research to get information about things that we don't know right now. We'll come back together. Um we're meeting every two weeks. We'll come back together the
next meeting. We'll talk about the things that we've discovered, we've found. What else do we need to know? We'll go look for that again. We'll come back again. Then we'll start to also look at some of the obstacles for the different funding mechanisms. Um and and
look at timing. Are there are there reasons to do things now later? You know, that sort of thing. And then the goal is to be able to present at the >> I think it's May 28th at the the last um
work session in May to present our findings and our recommendations to the board of education. And just a note on that, um we we also recognize that Merit Academy also is in need of funding and
our um um many fun many of the the the funding options are mandated by law to be shared equally with the charter school, but we're also, you know, giving consideration to how can we also help them um at the same time. So that's
anything else to add to that, Laura, that you can think of? No. Any questions from you guys? >> Are you ready? Do you have specific um options you you send out that you're exploring that you're ready to share or >> um Well, we're looking at the basics,
the mill levy override, um a bond, um we're looking at sales tax options, um and what other places have done. And then um there were a few creative um uh things like attaching
um a tax to short-term rentals. Um there were just some things that people brought up or I had some creative funding thoughts that I think we'd rather just kind of explore because I'd hate to talk about them and people go h can't do that. So, um, but I, you know,
we're and we're open if people out there have a, hey, I've got a great idea, bring it to us and we'll research it and explore it. Does that also include, Carol, um, like anything in terms of the discussing the possible continuity of the former foundation? I know that was
not ever like a significant material source of funding, but I was just curious because we had that last presentation in March. >> We didn't Yeah, we didn't we didn't go into that. we were looking more at other you know bigger options that's what we're kind of thinking through do we
have some followup on that the foundation I was actually just going to ask I haven't received anything I know I had requested >> some other information on like um hours required to keep that going >> okay >> um I I don't did anyone else receive
>> do you want me I believe he had said providing like a short job >> job description and hours required so we could find a suitable replacement. >> Yes. And job description. >> I have something to add to about the foundation. Um a potential future use
for it. Um the so the federal government you know passed the big beautiful bill I think it's called um to yeah but in it is tax credit for scholarship to
students and it's you know specifically trying to go towards private but um the state Colorado legislators are trying to get the wording for Colorado to be to involve public and I
read an article that said if you know if these are become public available uh funds then a foundation would be really useful for channeling those funds to districts. So it could be a potential
use for the foundation in the future. >> Need to have all this. >> Okay. Guess as a quick just tying that topic up, I think looking at philanthropy as a possible option like larger scale might be one avenue if you
haven't considered it too. >> And we did confirm any donations to the school are tax deductible. Is that correct? Right. Yeah. So, if anyone feels like their pockets are overflowing, it's a nice tax write off. Um, all right.
I'm excited to hear what you guys come up with. Uh, all right. So, that brings us to the practice because I don't know why that that doesn't want to come out correctly the first down times.
Um, feels like that was longer than a week ago. >> Last Tuesday. Um, right. But we had McKenzie Khan, who's the executive director of KA Association of Charter School Authorizers, which is CAXA, and
then Alex Medler, who's the executive director of the National Network for District Authorizing. Um and they spent three and a half hours presenting to us about what um basically was there uh chartering 101. Um you know
if they were helping a new district charter a brand new charter school, what would they recommend? How would they set it up? What should a contract look like? What are the important things? Uh my big takeaway was that we were missing a lot
of what they would consider basic best practices. So we've got some cleanups to do there. And and I think the other takeaway was that all of all of the things they considered best practices were best
practices to ensure that the students in the district were getting the education that they're supposed to. Right. It's it's protection for the charter school to make sure the district doesn't try and short change them. It's protection for the for the district to make sure that, you know, they're not losing funds they shouldn't. And it's really just
protection for the students um to ensure that the the resources they need to to have the quality education are there and and an accountability to the taxpayers. So, um I am I'm really excited that they came in and that we were able to be part
of that group of three to to get that education. Um and I'm excited that we'll be working with them meeting on Friday morning um to to kind of go further and figure out how we bring in our liaison
um what that could look like and timing. I think, you know, we're going to have to look at like our facilities use agreement and um perhaps look at the contract and and see what things um we need to shore up whether that's adding
an addendum or um asking merit to come back so that we can um adjust that wholesale to to the benefit of everyone. Um, but I think we've got some good takeaways there. To add a visual to what's missing, this
is the charter contract as voted on in August. And this is the attachments. So, it's about same thickness that were in the first contract, but are not in this one. And this one includes
waiverss, the school's recruitment and enrollment plan, their enrollment policy, and district services contract. Um, which we've noted for a while are missing. And I don't think this one actually has
services contract because they didn't they weren't operating yet. Um, so this should be a lot thicker. And I have concerns especially about the waiverss. >> Yeah. >> If they're um even on
Miller's law firm's website, they say if when you renew a contract, you need to renew the waiverss and the waivers were not included in this contract. Um, and so I think right now the charter school
is at risk and our district is so we need to be checking in on those things. Great. Um I think one of the things we're um talking about and we can ask CA about it
too is just you know about um charter contract experts um also right absolutely um you know I think we have a district attorney John I think he's great um charter contracts is not his area of expertise and so I think
it would make sense again to find um someone who who specializes in that and can look at it and and really have a deep understanding so that you know we can we can move forward confidently with that as well. So that's one of the questions I'd like to ask in that meeting on Friday to see if they have
lawyers they would recommend who specialize in charter contracts. >> So also too I think um I'm not sure if it was by invitation or not but I appreciated that Merritt's leadership took the time to attend that meeting and hear the same things that we were hearing firsthand. they're sitting right next to us and I think that was a good
opportunity even just for a little bit of dialogue in that conversation to say um hey we feel like we're getting some good information here and um they may have a different perspective on that coming from a charter school perspective but I still really appreciate that they took the time to participate so that we can all figure out how we're going to
move on this together and be better authorizers and better partners. >> Yeah, I was glad they were there too. Um we did invite them to attend. I had sent an email to their board president um letting them know we were having the session and and kind of inviting all of them to to attend and I think you sent a
message to Gwen. Um, yeah, but you know, this is something we want to do together. >> And you can correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't one of at one point, didn't they say, "We wish that we would know when you're going to talk about
>> a chart and so you you have been since that point, you've committed to reach out to them when there was anything that we were going to talk about." >> Yes. >> In that regard. So, yeah. and we'll we'll send an invitation to when when um we figure out the the final date for
like the audit report. I think it would be appropriate to invite them to that as well. So that's my plan. >> Yeah. >> Um so that they can sit here and hear it Yeah. firsthand as well. >> Yeah. One of the things that that um I don't remember I think it was Alex said that
that I was not aware of is he he he confirmed that when district has space that's open >> that we we have to let charter schools know that we have that unused space but
we're not actually required by law to provide that space to them you know and I think that's just another example of sometimes what law requires us to do is it doesn't mean that we then cannot
give them space. It means we don't have to but it is the right thing to do for the kids in our community. And so I think sometimes we get a little bit confused and we think that okay the law says it so that's it. And it's like the
law the law sets the baseline not not the moral excellence but the baseline you have more to say ginger about the liazison or >> David and I have talked about that sorry
um and I'm very excited to um hopefully be able to hire a liaison to just really help us get more structured um the partnership and make sure that we are following best practices. I would love
guidance to set up um site visits and um monthly meetings and possibly invite them to come when we do operations. So when we're getting information about operations around the district as a leadership team that everybody's here, we're all getting the same information
together. So I think there's definitely some positive steps forward that we can make. Um but I think having like a liaison would be really important. >> Well and just so many of the things that you and David and the rest of the administration have had to shoulder um
in that partnership with with the charter school because we don't have a leazison. It takes away from your other duties, right? it's taking away from your ability to run the rest of the district and and and even just from that perspective having somebody whose sole
responsibility is is like this is what they're here for. Um and and just to kind of take that off your shoulders, obviously you're still involved in conversations, but to not be the point person all the time that I think will free you up a lot. >> I would appreciate the expertise as well. >> Yeah. Well, and a lot of the job of the
authoring falls on staff >> which isn't sustainable with how much you guys have to do. So, >> and the cutting of stuff. And you know, I'd like to add that um I've got a meeting set up with Katie Uber, the sped
director, and um McKenzie um and she McKenzie said that she would maybe be able to find another sped director to come into that phone call as well just to help make sure that we're going through that Boseies is using best
practices um in their relationship with the charter school. So, we're really we're really taking advantage of that relationship quickly. >> Hope they're ready first. Um, all right. Anything else on that?
No. All right. That moves us to our action section of meeting. Um, so the first thing we have on our action items is GP8. Um so this is the um governance process
policy that we discussed at the last board meeting and made um some suggested edits. We had a first reading and so now we are looking to approve that. I did not receive any feedback from anyone about it. So um unless somebody else
did, I'm ready to look for a motion to approve that. I'll make a motion to approve GP8 agenda planning and board meetings as it's been presented. I second that. Right.
>> Any discussion before we have to vote? That's all please. >> I Davidson. >> I guess >> I Green Street. >> I All right. And so that brings us to staff appreciation week. Um,
so I will read through the resolution. I know that sometimes feels silly. It's a thing that we have to approve annually. Uh, we can go above and beyond, but we have to take this step to at least acknowledge that we are designating the
week of May 4th through the 8th as staff appreciation week. Resolution reads, "Whereas the dedication and commitment of educated education staff are essential to the success of students and educational institutions and whereas the
tireless efforts of educators, support staff, administrators, and all those involved in the education process deserve recognition and appreciation for the invaluable contributions. And whereas staff appreciation week provides an opportunity to honor and
celebrate the hard work, passion and dedication of all individuals who work tirelessly to support the mission of education. And whereas acknowledging the efforts of staff creates a positive and supportive work environment, encouraging morale and promoting continued
excellence in education. Now therefore, be it resolved, we the members of the board of education of Woodland Park School District, RE2, proclaim May 4th through the 8th, 2026, as Staff appreciation week. And be it further
resolved that the Woodland Park School District RE2 encourages all stakeholders, including students, parents, and community at large, to join in in recognizing and appreciating the dedication and hard work of our staff during this special week.
I need a motion. >> I move that we um accept the resolution as read by Keegan. >> You want to read it again? >> Any discussion? I I guess I my one discussion would be can we discuss and can we put this on
the agenda for our work session to come up with anything that the board itself might want to do during this week? >> Yes. >> Anything else? I >> Davidson. >> I
>> Green Street. >> I staff appreciation week is official. >> Uh, okay. And that brings us to the superintendent contract. So, um, we obviously had this on our agenda for
last meeting. Um, we found it wanting, took the time, as I think was necessary, to edit it, sent it back to the lawyer, got his edits, read it again. Had a couple more edits, and we finally have a version I think we
are ready to move forward with. Um, so I'll look for a motion and then we can discuss. >> I move to approve the superintendent contract. You have a second. >> I second that. All right. Any further discussion?
>> I just had a small note. I was late to reading it. I apologize. And you did that change in >> Oh, okay. Then I don't have it. Thank you. >> And offer.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I was able to reach out to him and he made a change. Okay. >> And I think that's been reflected on the website because it the change happened after the packet went out. Correct. However, the version that you have in front of you is the updated version and the one on the website is updated also. >> And it was just a word that didn't
belong. It was a B. >> Right. >> Yes. >> Literally. >> The sentence just didn't quite make sense. >> Yeah. >> I just wanted to verify that of all the red line and the changes that were made that those are also made in discussion with Ginger as appropriate if any
material terms change. >> Yeah. So, Ginger and I met with um with John. Um we had a hour and a halfish Friday afternoon, >> Friday afternoon meeting with him. So, he came into the office, we discussed it, we made a couple edits that you were
get you were all sent. Um and then of course all the things we had discussed at the last meeting, but yeah, Ginger was in the meeting. >> Okay. I just want to make sure that the board didn't unilaterally make changes to the contract that Okay. And you have access to the edits.
>> Yep. >> Any further discussion? >> Then I will look for real. >> Barkley. >> I Davidson. >> I >> Gilgeness. >> I >> Gordon. >> I >> Green Street. >> I
>> gender. You officially have a contract. >> Congratulations. >> All right. Okay. Oh my goodness. That is the end. >> No, that's one more thing. >> Well, operational reports, that's just information in your packet. >> Oh, okay. Gotcha. Y
>> All right. Unless we have anything else for the good of the order. I will a motion to adjourn this. >> I move to adjourn this meeting. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Second call.
Barkley. >> Hi, >> Davidson. >> Hi, >> Gilganess. >> Hi, >> Gordon. >> Hi, >> GreenG. >> I clock 808. It's not 808. >> 54. >> We thought we were doing well. >> Oh, that was just Thank you all for
hanging out for all of that. Some of you didn't have a choice. I thank you anyway. >> And it's how we are how they figure out how we define it. Okay. Any process?